Great Stuff! (btw, pun intended), love the analogy to your daughter, anxiety hits hard at everyone. I was a practicing attorney making hundreds of thousands dollars a year, traveling the world, happily married, 2 great kids, a weekend warrior athlete when at 45 I was diagnosed with aggressive cancer. I took the 1st blow in stride but when it recurred and I had a kidney removed I got depressed, all I could see was what I was losing (NOT what I still had) and tried to cure my depression with food. I'm 15 years past that and currently in great health BUT it was a struggle and after reading your piece I wish I had you (or someone like you) helping me rebound (and yes, pun again intended!) Keep doing what you do, not just the reporting on the league but making the NBA's athletes 3 dimensional
Thanks for a really great piece! I remember watching Brandon at Gonzaga and with Memphis. His physical abilities were incredible! Such a sad story.
I also appreciate your insights into the life that is pro sports. I think it's extremely sad for fans to not understand how difficult it really is to even get to this level, and how talented and hard working you have to be to even be a two-way player in this league. Gambling, particularly prop-bets, have made these players lives even harder. The abuse they seem to take for people not winning their bets is simply amazing to me--something I'll never understand.
Coach Thorpe, thank you for writing this piece, and sharing it with the community. I subscribe not just because I love the insight and info about what's going on in the NBA (and occasionally the college game) that you and Henry deliver, but because you both ground it so much in the real world and REAL experiences of the people. You never forget that everyone you're talking about, everyone you train, everyone affected by the dark (evil) money flowing in, are people first and foremost.
Thank you again. And yes, I'm hoping people at Memphis, at every team and in the League Office are asking, "How do we prevent this from happening again?".
Great Stuff! (btw, pun intended), love the analogy to your daughter, anxiety hits hard at everyone. I was a practicing attorney making hundreds of thousands dollars a year, traveling the world, happily married, 2 great kids, a weekend warrior athlete when at 45 I was diagnosed with aggressive cancer. I took the 1st blow in stride but when it recurred and I had a kidney removed I got depressed, all I could see was what I was losing (NOT what I still had) and tried to cure my depression with food. I'm 15 years past that and currently in great health BUT it was a struggle and after reading your piece I wish I had you (or someone like you) helping me rebound (and yes, pun again intended!) Keep doing what you do, not just the reporting on the league but making the NBA's athletes 3 dimensional
Thanks for a really great piece! I remember watching Brandon at Gonzaga and with Memphis. His physical abilities were incredible! Such a sad story.
I also appreciate your insights into the life that is pro sports. I think it's extremely sad for fans to not understand how difficult it really is to even get to this level, and how talented and hard working you have to be to even be a two-way player in this league. Gambling, particularly prop-bets, have made these players lives even harder. The abuse they seem to take for people not winning their bets is simply amazing to me--something I'll never understand.
Sad day!
Coach Thorpe, thank you for writing this piece, and sharing it with the community. I subscribe not just because I love the insight and info about what's going on in the NBA (and occasionally the college game) that you and Henry deliver, but because you both ground it so much in the real world and REAL experiences of the people. You never forget that everyone you're talking about, everyone you train, everyone affected by the dark (evil) money flowing in, are people first and foremost.
Thank you again. And yes, I'm hoping people at Memphis, at every team and in the League Office are asking, "How do we prevent this from happening again?".